Medscape: ‘Milestone’ Meeting Highlights NIH Efforts to Combat ME/CFS

By Ryan Prior. Photographs by Rachel Bujalski for CNN. (CNN)Multiple times a day, every day, Ron Davis sits with his head bowed, waiting outside his son’s bedroom for a subtle signal that it’s all right to come in. He opens the door to the space where Whitney has spent most of the last decade. Whitney...

Hope & Heart Unite for ME/CFS presents the 2019 selected poem, “Even Though” by Laurie Glass, and selections of the beautiful artwork that was submitted, in a video. The OMF community’s response to OMF and Lev Leytzan’s Hope and Heart Unite for ME/CFS Poetry and Art Slam was incredible! People in 17 countries submitted more than 130 entries and...

By Cort Johnson It’s not pretty! The print is abysmally small, the margins are tiny, long stretches of text are common (it abhors paragraphs), the images are jammed together, and the formatting is designed to make you work and is decades out of date, but the fact is that when you’re one of the top...

Save the Date – Third Annual Community Symposium Saturday, September 7, 2019 3rd Annual Community Symposium on the Molecular Basis of ME/CFS at Stanford University Sponsored by Open Medicine Foundation Come hear from our amazing team in person! A unique and up-close opportunity to learn from and interact with these world-class scientists. Support open and collaborative research. Become...

By Miriam Tucker Bethesda, Maryland — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) held a 2-day conference on high-level science that is beginning to yield clues to understanding and ultimately treating the complex, multisystem illness now known as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). The Accelerating Research on ME/CFS Meeting, held on the NIH’s main campus on...